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Suddenly the Transfer Portal poses a mild danger Oregon's playoff hopesBoth were third on the depth chart and both have left the team eight games into the season. While neither has played since the blowout wins in early September, it's still a blow to the depth needed for practice reps, special teams and as insurance against injuries. Fields and Florence will land somewhere, tall, talented cornerbacks with above average speed and good coverage ability. Fields earned a four-star rating in the class of 2024, 6-2, 200 from Junipero Serra High, straight out of Compton, California. The loss of either is not damaging unless the Ducks suffer a corresponding run of injuries at defensive back, keeping in mind that a long season is potentially little more than half over-- it takes 16 games to win a national championship now, and Oregon is 7-1. Autzen ZooSuddenly the Transfer Portal poses a mild danger Oregon's...Kids want to play and further their NFL dreams. It's only natural that on a deep and talented roster a few players will drop off and hit the portal.

#9 feels right, honestly. Beat Iowa, USC, Minn, and the mutts on the road...we'll be hosting a game as a 5 or 6 seed. Cracking the top 4 would not be out of the realm of reality either given the chaos we'll see in the next few weeks with B12 and SEC teams beating each other up, then the conf. CG's. Just need to take care of our own business. Iowa will be the toughest. Dante will continue to grow hopefully, if it clicks soon we could be pretty good down the stretch

Feels like another "DA will have them playing well in March" kind of team, that will lose in the round of 32

Just like last year’s Alabama team, these teams never talk about the other teams they lost to. Don’t lose to a Florida team with a losing record, if you want to make the college football playoffs. If Texas and Ole Miss were both, 10-2 then you can make the case that Texas had the harder schedule and they should get the nod.

But who would he supplant on the receiver side of things? Justus Lowe started some games last year with Tez injured and he has barely seen the field this year. The receiver room has a ton of talent in it as well.

One thing last season’s OSU game (and 2013 Tennessee and 2017 Nebraska) taught me was Oregon fans have no problem parting with their tickets if the price is right. However, I do realize that there were a few Buckeye fans who bought Oregon season ticket packages just for that game.

Ah, yes. I was thinking of OU with the Michigan win. Notre Dame just has Pitt left. Don't forget that Texas and OU will likely have at least three losses each. OU has to go to Bama and Texas hosts UGA and ATM.

College football odds, picks, predictions: Texas Tech vs. BYU, Oregon vs. Iowa turn up the heat in Week 11 CBS Sports experts Brad Crawford and Chris Hummer reveal their predictions for Saturday's most important matchups

Not quarreling with the excellent take, but We Need the Dues! Every team in the PO field means millions of dollars for the conference and a nice payday for every conference team. I think come 2030 and a new media deal, and as is the case in the ACC today, teams that make the CFB playoff and CBB tourney will be keeping most, if not all, of the postseason revenue. OBD's loss in the 2nd round of last season's playoff, 😒, still meant millions of dollars for the conference. As did Indiana's 1st round loss, and Penn State and Ohio State brought in B1G bank. Interestingly, teams that advance to the champ game make the same money as the teams eliminated in the semifinals.

Courtesy of Stewart Mandel, wouldn't this be an interesting dilemma? 🤬 The last PO spot comes down to a 10-2 Ole Miss, that played thin air OOC, and a 3-loss Texas team that played Ohio State? If the Committee were presented with this and chose Ole Miss, shouldn't every P4 OOC game be canceled?

Injury Status of Iowa Quarterback Mark Gronowski In Flux Before Oregon GameThe Oregon Ducks will be playing against one of the more unique quarterbacks in the Big Ten during their road visit to Kinnick Stadium against the Iowa Hawkeyes, though Mark Gronowski's health will certainly be something to watch Oregon Ducks On SIInjury Status of Iowa Quarterback Mark Gronowski In Flux...As November rolls around, the Oregon Ducks are hitting the road after their bye week with sights set on ending the regular season with no more blemishes on thei

Behind Enemy Lines: Iowa insider Sean Bock answers five questions Iowa insider Sean Bock answers five questionsleading up to Saturday's game at Kinnick Stadium

I really want him to be good, he's a fun player to watch, he has flair to his game, but he just doesn't look like he has had much high level coaching. I was at the game and every time he did something wrong I was looking at Altman who looked like he wanted to throttle him.

Losing to Indy wasn't a season killer but Penn St going off the rails might be. That was suppose to be an impressive victory on the road against a legit top ten team. That is the same scenario that has propelled Indy to No. 2. Without that top 10 win, we may still play and defeat three more ranked teams that may fall out of the rankings after losing to the Ducks. Either dropping out of the rankings or firing your coach or both after playing OBD has a cool grim reaper mystic but doesn't help with playoff seeding.

My business allows me to talk with people in most parts of the country........with the exception of the northeast. Without exception, all who are sports fans know about Oregon football........not so much the other sports.

When it comes to the playoffs, what would be your priority? Is just making the field good enough? Championship contention? Making the final four? For me, I'm most interested in being competitive for a championship so I'd say being in the final for or even better, the championship would be a successful season with winning it all being the cherry on top. With that said, losing to Iowa or USC or Washington would mean the team is not at championship contention level this year and not making the playoffs wouldn't bother me that much. I'll always root for OBD no matter what level they are at in any given year, but to me when it comes to the playoffs, you're either in it to win it or you're not. This mind set is also what has me really excited for the game this week. It feels like the stakes are really high.

The home team manages ticket sales for 1st round PO games. The Playoff Poohbahs manage ticket sales thereafter. The home team must allocate 3500 tickets for the visiting team, including not more than 500 (!) for the visiting team's band. The number of Vols fans in Columbus last season for the 1st round game against Ohio State was an anomaly. Tennessee fans cracked the ticket sales code and volunteered to watch a beatdown of their mighty SEC team.

Notre Dame's two losses came at Miami, no longer a stellar loss, and at home versus Texas A&M. ND did not and does not play Michigan this season. Michigan lost at Oklahoma and SC. ND plays at Pitt after the Panthers are off this week, while ND plays Navy. Under Pat Narduzzi, Pitt has a solid record in Acrisure Stadium, which used to be Heinz Stadium, which replaced Three Rivers Stadium. 🤔The Panthers, undefeated since replacing the starting QB, will be sky high for this game. Pitt has a solid defense. 6th nationally against the run, giving up 80.9 yards a game. If Pitt can hold down ND's run game, it has a good chance of knocking ND out of the PO. This is a PO elimination game for ND. Pitt with wins over Georgia Tech and Miami, would finish 7-1 in conference, with a chance of playing in the ACC champ game. If OBD has a close loss against Iowa or UW on the road, or a close loss to an SC team that finishes with two losses, I double down on my call of a 10-2 Oregon team being in the PO field. Indiana will finish the regular season 12-0 and will be ranked in the committee's top two before the champ game. The loss to Indiana will continue to be a 'good' loss. The committee will value wins over teams it has ranked as of now, especially road wins, and will not ding OBD for a close loss to a team it has ranked. 3-loss B1G teams will be in the committee's final top 25. The committee has over one-third of the B1G conference teams ranked, two fewer than the SEC, with many SEC teams having tough games to be played. Two fewer ranked teams than the SEC, but three more than the ACC and the B12. The committee does not believe the B1G is only three teams deep. If OBD wins this Saturday, the loser of the BYU at Texas Tech game will be ranked behind Oregon next week. As of today, the ACC, without an upset in its champ game, is looking like a one-bid conference. Virginia's loss to NC State does not count in the ACC standings (🤪), but it counts with the committee. UVA is far from a sure thing vs. Wake and VA Tech, and on the road at Duke. Vandy plays Tennessee, so Vandy could have a 3rd loss, or Tennessee a 4th loss. A+M is at Missouri this Saturday. Odds have Mizzou losing its third game. 2-loss Texas has games left at Georgia and vs A&M, and could finish with three or four losses. The Longhorns' close loss at Ohio State and its brand name give Texas the best chance in the SEC to make the PO with three losses. A&M is undefeated, and Ole Miss, Georgia, and Alabama have a loss. Georgia has come close to three defeats this season. All other SEC teams have two or more losses. Bama came this close to a loss at South Carolina. Ole Miss has the easiest remaining schedule, but Ole Miss defeated Wazzu in Oxford by three points. None of these teams is invincible, and I think playing only eight conference games matters to the committee, especially the three former coaches on the committee. The SEC will place four teams in the field, perhaps five if Notre Dame goes down. The B1G will have at least three teams in the field, Ohio State and Indiana, and at least one 2-loss team from SC, Iowa, Michigan, Washington, or Oregon. I believe OBD still has a PO Mulligan. Of course, it would be nice for OBD to make it easy on the committee and its fans by going 11-1. 11-1 means a 1st round home game for the Ducks. BEAT IOWA!

I’ll say again, only 4 teams that made the field last year had fewer than 2 losses, and one of those was G6 Boise. That’s 66.67% of the field with 2+ losses my friends. No reason to expect any different this year. We have a full month of November football to go….stuff will happen. They can talk about their advanced metrics all they want , but until I see otherwise, no 10-2 P2 will be left out of the field imo.

If OBD gets a home game in the playoffs they better hope it's against somebody like UVA or Memphis. Every other team that is projected as a possible playoff contender has fans that travel. The CFP will take over ticket sales which will eliminate the student section. I would say that a game against a team like Notre Dame, Texas, OU, etc. would draw at least 25K visiting fans. Not much of a home game. Ohio State had 15K+ last year without the benefit of buying out the student section.

That's about a half hour shower here. We should be able to handle that. It's the wind that really kills the passing game

That's a good mentality for the team to have. However, I think a two-loss B1G team will make the playoffs. Whether it's Oregon, Iowa, USC, Michigan or Washington I think they will they give the B1G the benefit of the doubt.

Autzen in December? I remember going to the first PAC-12 championship game. It was so cold, we couldn't get our regular seats, sat in a section closer to the end zone, stairway in front of us, so people going up and down in front of us all the time, a puddle at our feet and a concrete wall next to us. I'd check the forecast first of course, but in all likelihood if the Ducks play in Autzen in December, I'll watch the game on TV!